The Dodgers tonight make their visit to the Trop since 2007, but they have several familiar faces — ex-Rays OF Carl Crawford, LHP J.P. Howell and LHP Scott Kazmir, along with top baseball executive Andrew Friedman.

Eric Lynn is dropping out of his congressional race to succeed David Jolly and instead will run for state House, in the Democratic-leaning district to be vacated by Dwight Dudley, D-St. Petersburg. He faces a primary challenge from St. Petersburg attorney Ben Diamond.

CLEARWATER — More than 2,800 individuals and business are without power in downtown Clearwater. The reason for the outage is not known, but power is expected to be restored by 2 p.m. today, according to Duke Energy customer service. The outage occurred about 12:15 p.m.

The Dodgers tonight make their visit to the Trop since 2007, but they have several familiar faces — ex-Rays OF Carl Crawford, LHP J.P. Howell and LHP Scott Kazmir, along with top baseball executive Andrew Friedman....